You can reach out to us on social media this morning. The walle take from street journal. Others have insight and background and this is from the Washington Post. The larger context this morning is about the cancellation of meetings between president obama and president clinton and russia over issues. We want to and president Vladimir Putin. You can alsol use social media. Maryland is up first on our democrat line. Caller good morning. Host what do you think about the cancellation of this meeting . Caller i think it is kind of silly because when you have problems with somebody, shouldnt you talk to them . Why you cancel a meeting if youve got problems with their neighbor, you go talk to your neighbor. That the white house says because progress was made, a summit was not good at this time. That is their argument. Caller i still think you have to talk to people. Host if thats the case, talk pointwhat the discussion be and how does Edward Snowden complicate this . Caller that really complicate everything. Host there he is on the screen, edward it snowed in. Ginia, cancellation virginia is next on our independent line. Caller good morning, hello. I agree with the previous caller. By stopping talking to somebody, i think it is detrimental to relationships rather than encouraging relationships. Snowden can beat likened to spy swaps. We know it goes on. Regarding him should be performed in the same white as spy swaps are performed. Host do you think a faceto face meeting would have been productive . Yes, i think absolutely. When you look at the enormity of the relationship between russia and the United States, why over such a relatively small thing where the damage has already been done, do you put at risk all of the other things that former relationship between two large countries . Host this is from twitter ryan is on the phone from washington, d. C. , on a republican line. Caller hello, sir. I was reading an article on Foreign Policy. Com last night and itvlad the impaler talks about our relationship with russia and how Vladimir Putin is sticking it to obama in this administration and is really the superior strategist when it comes to Foreign Policy. He has his eye on the prize. We just cannot seem to get our things together. There is a lot of information in this article. Pew research did polls of russian citizens and they found statistics like 75 of the people find a good economy more important than democratization. Find a strong leader more important than free society. It is this mentality that i think Vladimir Putin and caps delays. Forarticle says it is going your goals before your morals and that is what russia is prepared to do and thats not what this administration is prepared to do. I think that is why our relationship will continue to deteriorate. Right now, that is what russi anda winning the Foreign Policy wars. Host monica, calif. , independent line. Caller thank you for having me. We are very much aware that snowden is in russia. Next up is a midland, texas, independent line. I wouldfirst of all, like to say that the Media Coverage of just this one issue is an excellent example why our media, television, news, and our newspapers are just losing a leadership, losing viewers. But coverage is so pathetic. It has almost turned into our new pravda. It is so pathetic and a disservice. Russia is trying to keep United States out of a war in syria that is based on lies, the same people that live the us into bombing iraq are the same people that are trying to lie us into this thing in syria. Sellingpapers now are for pennies on the dollar. Themy wants to deal with anymore. We have lost our reporters. We have lost it all, sir. Host what do you think about the cancellation of the meeting . But coverage is so pathetic host what about the cancellation of the meeting . Caller the reason it has been cancelled is because our government does not have anything to add to it. They just want to go to war. Any we cannot negotiate. We just want to control other countries. The state department on wednesday it was passed the state Department Spokesperson who reiterated the administration canceling the meeting. [video clip] there was unanimous support for the decision within the National Security council not to hold the summit. Is point was made, and this one the secretary agrees with, is that we were not at the point in our progress on a number of issues where a summit at the president ial level was the most constructive step. At the same time, we recognize there are many areas we need to continue to work on and the feeling was that the secretary, having continued conversation with the foreign minister and defense secretary hagel, having continued conversations would be the appropriate next step. Host the president has canceled meetings with the russian president. This was supposed to take place of the upcoming g20 meeting in russia and we are getting your thoughts on that this morning. The telephone numbers are on your screen. A couple of Facebook Comments there are about 30 Facebook Comments and you can add to the conversation during the course of the morning. This is from texas, independent line. Doesr good morning, anyone else feel like president obama is behaving like a Grade School Child whose school made has not agreed to play the game with the same rules . He swells up and refuses to play. Host is that your thought . Caller yes, i feel like we are watching a child. Host what is the value of having these meetings . Ofler communications, one the most important things we have in life. Host nashville, georgia or it is communication but what we do,ter these are foreign peoples. Think he needs a plan be in place. We dont want to go over there and put our country into another war. We have been involved in every war that is taking place today. People dont understand. You keep taking countries but they are not looking at the price. We are fighting two or three wars and it takes a lot of money. I think president obama will get a busy guy. Host you mean snowden . Caller yes, he will get this guy. You cannot sit down with a lot of countries and talk. We are already in conflict now. Indiana,ver lake, independent line. Caller i would like to make a few comments. Host go ahead. Caller we are hearing a lot of stuff about the difference between obama and Vladimir Putin. On the one hand, is the Vladimir Putin going to gain any favor from his constituents in russia or is obama going to gain more with his constituents in the United States . You know something . I think it is a delaying pact between both of them where we can get sold out on our freedom from both sides. Host meaning what . I hear callers say that we are going to get a certain amount of this or that. We are going to lose some of our freedoms and the United States dealing with about with Vladimir Putin. He is a kgb operative and always will be. The bear is not dead in russia. Roll callges of could you talk about the decision from opm and what it does for staffers in Congress Looking at the Affordable Care act . What happened in this case was there was a provision in the Affordable Care act that basically said that members of congress and a lot of congressional staffers would be moving into the new Health Care Exchanges to get there on Health Benefits that are provided to them as federal employees. Rather than getting Health Benefits like most federal employees through the federal m. Lee Health Benefit program, they would now get their insurance the exchangesh that are established by the Affordable Care act for Small Businesses and people who are not insured and the like. That created a complication because it was not clear in the plain reading of the law that the federal government would be llowed to continue to pay premiums or subsidize the premiums for these employees. So the concernole was that once the exchanges kicked into effect, this federal employees who are congressional staffers and members, too, would have to pay all of their Health Care Costs out of pocket with opm. They said they have to move into the exchanges. However, the government will continue in to pay the premium assistance for their policies once they are in the exchanges. Is there a dollar figure attached to these premiums . Generous federalmore policies could be five or 10 5,000 for an individual and 10,000 for a family. It is not entirely clear how this will all work out yet with the opm guidance because one thing that is different with the way the exchanges work from the way the federal employee Health Benefit work is that in the exchanges, insurance chargees can policyholders more based on factors like age and whether or not you are a smoker. That differs, really, as i understand it, from the federal employees Health Benefit plan where anyone who is a federal worker who opts for a specific policy on that sort of exchange pays the same amount. It is not clear out the subsidies will work when people who are individual employees are paying different rates. Host there is a line in your story that say some staffers would not have to join the exchanges. This is another weird quirk in this law that has infuriated a number of republican lawmakers. The original Affordable Care act provision exploited Committee Staff and some others. You actually will have a two tiered system where suppose forone is an employee example, suppose someone is an employee of senator barbara mikulski. That person would be on the exchange but if the same person was working for the same person at the appropriations committee, they might not be on the exchange. They might still get the federal employee benefits. That all also say lawmakers and staff you talk about premium tax credits. Can you expand on that . Saying that you cannot get two bites out of the same apple. There are a number of tax credits that the Affordable Care act provides to help individuals Purchase Health insurance based on income and other factors. If you areying that a federal worker who works for a member of congress or you are a member of congress, you cannot claim the tax credit to help you buy Health Insurance on the exchange if the federal government is taking in money to help you pay that on the front end. You cant get both a tax credit and a subsidy. Host how did this become a story . Guest well there are two sides to that. The first thing is what happened in the last couple of weeks. Quietly something bad theme an under current in capital over a number of weeks because staffers were getting concerned about how this was going to be implemented. As we understand it, president obama personally intervened to help get this opm decision made before the exchanges got up and running. That is the immediate tie. That no onething really wants to talk about necessarily on capitol hill. Were notn lawmakers jumping at the decision. To either criticize it or praise it. Perhaps because there is a risk of giving it too much attention. This is one thing where no one, even the people most who are most urgent critics of health care law, members of congress, do not want to see their staff suddenly paying an exorbitant amount of money for their Health Benefits and run the risk of them either leaving their office to go to the private sector or somewhere else in the federal government where they can still get the federal employee benefits. Host thank you for joining us from roll call. Thank you for your time. Here is one more story to show you from the Associated Press out of washington about theen talking cancellation of a meeting set to take place at the occoquan at the upcoming g20 between president obama and the russian president. Forre getting your thoughts our remaining 20 minutes. Here is patrick from carnegie, pa. , democrats line. Stupidity of canceling the meeting between our russian counterpart is so monumental. Not only have you empowered Edward Snowden allies support, who i support, by the way. That theemonstrates United States government is now controlled by the state of israel and that fascist regime and dancinging around president obama like a puppet. Caller i am from ashland, ohio. Ishink the reason why obama not going over there is we are fixing to go into world war three. Weve got all these ships and thebacking up japan and philippines and taiwan. Weve got stuff in thailand. We are going into vietnam and russia has just put three warships in cuba. Going to president is the summit but he is not meeting with the russian president. He is planning a summit but not taking the meeting with the russian president. Caller why would he go . Edward christian from a twitter that is another way to participate this morning. Is the topic for the next 20 minutes or so. This is from the usa today. Good morning from new hampshire, independent line. One of the few things i have ever agreed with obama on is not meeting with the russians. Made it clear very early that things have changed with the russians by telling the ambassador he can no longer used a garage that had to come around front and use the normal entry. Every once in awhile, you just have to slap a rushing to get their attention. Host do you think not going to this meeting how does that affect a couple of more tweets if you want to give us a call, the phone number is will be on your screen. This was a cancellation decision by the white house. Democrats line is next. Clipr you showed a little from the state Department Spokesperson. If you had showed it further, they showed a picture of Vladimir Putin and president Obama Meeting and when they visually, picture, Vladimir Putin looked stronger. Obama looked kind of closed in so i think it shows that heads of state like president s and Vladimir Putin are at different and and they normally discuss stuff that is not that important. That clip will go around the world and it made the u. S. Look a lot weaker. Host what do you think about the decision to cancel . Caller i think people should not getabout what obama is doing. A should realize he is just a figurehead. It is like the queen in england. That little clip and really what is going on in snowden exposat is more important. We will never see that. The decision to close the meeting is like a temper tantrum. It is not that important host Edward Snowden was the topic of that state Department Briefing where they talked about the United States and what they will do with edwards noted. [video clip] we would like to see him return to the United States but i dont know technically what that requires that they have the capability to do that. To revokeld like them this status . That is what it requires, our position has remained of the same period host that as part of the issues leading up to the cancellation of this meeting. There are other issues that have been laid out in the papers this morning. If you want to give your thoughts on the cancellation a couple of other stores in the papers looking at issues of the military this is a story about across theboard cuts in the defense department. It is time to see some of the money we spend on were to do nationbuilding at home. The article says we have the best trained and equipped military in history. President obama said the marines are the best military force and the world and he says he will keep it that way. Erie, pa. , democrats line, good morning. Caller good morning, i want to get my opinion out. I think president obama is doing the right thing by not going to meet with Vladimir Putin. From the last pictures when they met together, it is like Vladimir Putin did not like president obama. Maybe he is a racist. Snow was right in putting that stuff out, why didnt he stay here . Why did he run . This makes him look bad for the people who say he was right. If you are right and doing the right thing, why dont you stand up and stay . Arizona, republican line. Caller good morning, id think putin did the right thing i think mr. Obama did the right thing. He should not have talked to Vladimir Putin. He is still planning on the summit but not meeting with Vladimir Putin. Its about time he stopped getting pushed around. Host from the Washington Post sherry next from hamden, connecticut. Caller i agree with president attend decision not to the meeting with Vladimir Putin. Because of how he treated us with snowden but also he is no longer allowing americans to adopt russian citizens. There are other issues involved i think in the decision of president obama. Is attending the summit so it is not like he is not attending at all. That they dont like each other. If you look at their meeting, it looks like they dont like each other. I dont think it is about them diplomatically but i dont think i kind of think they ho